270 HAAS: ABIDA AND CHONDRINA. 



high Pyrenees and the upper Tech valley. My not very abun- 

 dant French material does not contradict this, but my Spanish 

 certainly does; so that I cannot bring myself to recognize 

 var. ringicula. The Pupa amelicc described by Locard from 

 Amelie-les-Bains is nothing else than var. ringicula, to which, 

 as Pilsbry correctly thought, Moquin-Tandon's var. minor is 

 to be added. 



The varieties attrita M.-T. and ventricosa Locard are forms 

 from the variation-range of the species, never thought by 

 their authors to be independent species. It is otherwise with 

 Pupa montserratica Fag. (Ann. Malac, II, 1884, p. 191) from 

 the cloister mountain Montserrat, near Barcelona, which Fagot 

 named from its type-locality as a distinct species beside poly- 

 odon. I have united it directly with polyodon, as it is con- 

 nected therewith by all transitions. A cotype from Fagot 

 was figured, Est. VI, pi. 3, figs. 18, 19 ; and here a topotype 

 of montserratica is illustrated (pi. 23, fig. 2). 



2. Abida braunii (Rossm.). 



Pilsbry, Vol. XXIV, p. 273, pi. 43, figs. 1-6. 



Here too, little is to be added to Pilsbry 's account. The 

 range of variation of the species is small, and never reaches 

 such extremes that the specific characters become indistinct. 

 Only the height of the spire and development of the peristome 

 are subject to considerable fluctuations. Westerlund's var. 

 conispira from Albarracin, which is unknown to me, belongs, 

 according to the description of the author, within the varia- 

 tion-range of the species, and could therefore apparently be 

 picked out of large lots of oraunii from other localities. 



In France confined to the High and East Pyrenees, A. 

 oraunii has a wider distribution in the Iberian Peninsula. 

 Besides occurring in the Spanish Pyrenees, it has been found 

 as far as the latitude of Barcelona, enters Arragon over the 

 Ebro as far as the Province Teruel (Albarracin), and is be- 

 fore me in the Kobelt collection likewise in specimens from 

 the Basque country (Orduna and Vergara). I cannot demon- 

 strate its alleged occurrence in Portugal by specimens seen, 



